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The Villages
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Homeless man arrested after strange incident at Chick-fil-A

A homeless man was arrested after a strange incident at the Chick-fil-A restaurant in The Villages.

Officers responded at about 3 p.m. Monday at the restaurant at Rolling Acres Plaza where they found 46-year-old William David Pintado in a white Ford Escape, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department.

William Pintado
William Pintado

Pintado “was acting strangely by hitting himself with bottles, dunking his head in a cooler, and making strange gestures and kicking his legs.”

A K-9 unit arrived on the scene and alerted on Pintado’s vehicle.

He was found to be in possession of fentanyl and drug paraphernalia. He was also driving on a suspended license.

Pintado had been free on bond on drug and weapons charges at the time of the Chick-fil-A incident.

He was taken into custody and booked without bond at the Lake County Jail.

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